Volume 4 Number 1 January 2011

Climate Change Negotiations and Civil Society Participation:Shifting and Cont...

Based on ethnographic research in UN-based policy negotiations, I argue that civil society participation in global governance can best be thought through as it is played out in practice...

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Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet

The Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa complicates the idea of fictionality, by underscoring the fact that the personality of Soares (the fictional author of The Book of Disquiet) is nei...

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Your Brain on New Media: Communicative Democracy, Tyranny, and Enabling Ambiv...

Communicative democracy is the equal participation of all citizens in political discourse. There are two aspects to that participation— speaking and being heard. It is clear that there ...

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Temporality and Space in Cien años de soledad

The use of distinct time frames is often commented upon in the criticism of García Márquez’s Cien años de soledad. Progress and retrograde time exist at once in the text in the same man...

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Book Review: The Western Illusion of Human Nature by Marshall Sahlins. Chicag...

Book Review: The Western Illusion of Human Nature by Marshall Sahlins. Chicago, IL: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2008. Pp. 112. $12.95 (paper). ISBN: 0979405726

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Book Review: Social Problems: A Service Learning Approach by Corey Dolgon and...

Book Review: Social Problems: A Service Learning Approach by Corey Dolgon and Chris Baker. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 2010. Pp. 472. $56.95 (paper). ISBN: 0761929479

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